As far as the visible oil making scores go up in your THS league I highly doubt most bowlers will average any different. Maybe your top 2-3 guys would understand but other than that the rest of the league will have no idea what to do with the information.

Think about it like this, you can tell most league bowlers to move inside more because their ball is hooking too early and the typical answer is "well I always look at the second arrow", I highly doubt visible oil will change most people.

It will be interesting to see how the TV show goes, I can tell you from getting to see Dom Barrett's equipment after the block it does make the IQ Tour Pearl look completely green after a little bit from it picking up the blue tinted oil.

Definitely excited to see the show and see what happens as equipment tracks up the lane.

As far as the visible oil making scores go up in your THS league I highly doubt most bowlers will average any different. Maybe your top 2-3 guys would understand but other than that the rest of the league will have no idea what to do with the information.

Think about it like this, you can tell most league bowlers to move inside more because their ball is hooking too early and the typical answer is "well I always look at the second arrow", I highly doubt visible oil will change most people.

It will be interesting to see how the TV show goes, I can tell you from getting to see Dom Barrett's equipment after the block it does make the IQ Tour Pearl look completely green after a little bit from it picking up the blue tinted oil.

Definitely excited to see the show and see what happens as equipment tracks up the lane.

I posted on the USBC Group on Facebook a lot of what you said. This isn't an everyday thing, this is a tournament thing. I think that it would be a great teaching tool for JR leagues as well as coaches. If you can show bowlers what happens and then have then aim at different spots so they can see where the oil it and how your ball reacts in relation, win-win. I don't see this ever catching traction as a normal league thing.

A few things I will be interested to see is if areas with higher volume appear a darker blue, if individual boards/arrows are still clearly visible for targeting purposes, and if the color remains on the ball after wiping it off. Also, this should prove one way or the other if carrydown does/does not still exist. In the past few years, it's been a popular notion that it does not. We'll see.

i like it. it's possible to have multi-tinted oil. think about it if the application down lane were one color and the application back to front lane were another color and the combined colors would result in a mix that would be reddish or brown for any areas oiled twice by the machine. load up the colored oil and mix it up for contrast! this way you could see and differentiate between the lower volume unit application and higher volume units application on any pattern!that is how to do it! And remember we thought of it here first!RayRay

that reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield's putter in Caddyshack. Pretty cool. You could have terminator-like apps on google glass that would analyze the oil pattern with the UV dye and then project all playable lines based on your bowler specs and ball choices taken into account. sort of like a wearable instant Blueprint software as part of a total package that all comes together to line you up. It would analyze every shot to give you instant stats back and recommend adjustments.

wow. i see the beginnings of all this assembly of pieces of the puzzle.

RR

Originally Posted By: Joe Bowler

Originally Posted By: rrb6699 (RayRay)

I think that throws one of my inventions out the window, Joe. One thing i was working on was a set of glasses to show what you see in the dyed oil picture as visible.

Instead, how about a Google Glass app that calculates and overlays the actual lane with an image of the desired ball trajectory? You could call it BPS for Bowler Positioning System. That would be mighty cool, although probably not allowed in competition.

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